Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: A Third Collection

Titel: A Third Collection

Stichwort: Lonergan, Thomas: 3 Gründe einer Kontinuität; mehr ein Wandel der Form als dem Inhalt nach; Gnade, Habitus

Kurzinhalt: the medieval specialization was implicitly methodical;

Textausschnitt: 55/4 First there is the continuity from the implicit to the explicit. I have argued explicitly for a method in theology. But the medieval specialization was implicitly methodical. Its commentaries and books of sentences sought to do what today is achieved in research, interpretation, and history. Its questions and summa's did the work now carried on in dogmatics and systematics. Then as now theology operated methodically, but method now is talked about and then it was not. (51f; Fs)

56/4 Secondly, (..) Where he discoursed at length on virtues as operative habits, we can think with the Greeks of arete as excellence and develop the moral feelings that promote it. Where he conceived the grace of justification as a supernatural habit, we can note his doctrine that that grace makes us choose what is right where before we chose what was wrong, and so can give it the more familiar name of conversion. For him theology was not only science but-something better-wisdom; and this we can retain in terms of the successive sublations observed in intentionality analysis, where the curiosity of sense is taken over by the inquiry of intelligence, where inquiry is taken over by rational reflection, where reflection prepares the way for responsible deliberation, where all are sublimated by being-in-love-in love with one's family, in love with the human community, in love with God and his universe. (51f; Fs) (notabene)